Throwing a casting net is very different from growing cotton to Tom Hollowell. It's his first year at freshwater shrimp farming. "I'm very nervous," Hollowell said. Other WRAL Top Stories Hollowell ...

03 September 2014 Muscat - In a new experiment, the Aquaculture Centre under the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MoAF) has started farming giant freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in ...

Aquaculture of Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man) in Mauritius: commercial production of juveniles -- Preliminary observations on potential of culture of Macrobrachium amazonicum in Venezuela -- Giant ...

“Hey, it bit me!” cried Joe Thompson, grinning as he looked at the thing in his hands. The thing looked more or less like a shrimp … a shrimp from outer space. It was about 6 inches long, with spiny ...

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP - When you think of Fairfield County farming, freshwater prawns probably don't come to mind. But with Ohio's largest producer of freshwater prawns just outside Rusvhille, maybe they ...

They had to be convinced. Dan Cook and Doug Elder, co-founders of Freedom Freshwater Shrimp Co., were a bit skeptical when they heard that some farmers in Kentucky were starting up shrimp farms. Armed ...

11 December 2006 RASHT, Gilan Prov. -- Freshwater (Giant River) Prawn farming seems to be turning into a popular seafood business in Iran. The Sepid-Rud Fisheries Research Site in Astaneh Ashrafiyeh, ...

New research provides a roadmap for how entrepreneurs can harness freshwater prawns' voracious appetite for snails to reduce the transmission of schistosomiasis-causing parasites while still making a ...

Before bite-sized crustaceans like crayfish, shrimp and prawns land on our dinner plates, they first have to get fat themselves -- and it turns out they relish the freshwater snails that transmit the ...

RICHLAND TOWNSHIP - Don Maloney's friends and family members and members of the Fairfield Union High School Future Farmers of America club spent Friday evening scooping up, killing, weighing and ...